The photos turn back the clock to 1980 and showcase the stories which were making the news around the county during the dawn of a new decade. Locstions in focus include Leeds, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Halifax in West Yorkshire, Whitby and Scarborough on the east coast as well as the Yorkshire Dales. READ MORE: 24 photo memories take you around Yorkshire in 1970
1. Yorkshire Dales
Farmer Hannah Hauxwell is pictured drawing her water for domestic use at her farm in Baldersdale. Photo: Mike Cowling
2. Almondbury
The Almondbury bellringers rehearse in the school hall in October 1980. Photo: YPN
3. Wakefield
Gas board fitter Ernest Brice was such a keen gardener that for the past eight years he has provided Wakefield Westage with blooming displays - all for nothing. Pictured in August 1980. Photo: YPN
4. Pickering
April 1980 and a trailer with its unusual load manoeuvres through Pickering's narrow streets. The rusting Taw Valley, an ex Southern Railway engine rescued from a scrap yard at Barry, South Wales, was on the last stage of a 25mph journey by road to Pickering to join the rolling stock of the North Yorkshire Moors railway. Bert Hitchen brought 100 tonne steam locomotive for his wife Elizabeth as a birthday present. The copuple would spend their weekends for the next four years helping to restore the engine at a cost of about £30,000. Photo: George Stott
5. York
January 1980 and carver Dick Reid is pictured working on one of eight 200-year-old stone urns which were being replaced in York. Photo: YPN
6. Skipton
Lambert Alderson is pictured seen with his colleagues Arnold Beck (left) and Mr. Marc Symes (right) after winning a £50 bonus from Craven District Council for the care he had taken collecting rubbish. Pictured in August 1980. Photo: YPN